You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
Facebook has undergone amazing growth in the last year. At the beginning of 2009, we were already seeing almost a hundred million words a day posted in status updates — well over a thousand per second during peak times. ⋯⋯
Facebook Data Team Our look at measuring subpopulations on Facebook.
In order to make Facebook as open and connected as possible for everyone, one of our goals is to understand how different populations of users join and use the service⋯⋯
Facebook Data Team We've updated our United States Gross National Happiness graph with a new set of positive and negative words from LIWC (www.liwc.net). Thanksgiving is still a happy day, though not as happy relative to Christmas. We continually improve our models to make them better indicators of the things we measure, so you may notic⋯⋯e that the graph changes a bit from day to day.
Facebook Data Team At Facebook, Data plays a significant role in the Design process, helping us to iterate towards the best solution for 250 Million users.
We recently launched stream search (the ability to search content on Facebook) and a new search interface to 100% of Facebook users. Today, I want to share the story behind its design and the iterative process that is reflective of many projects at Facebook⋯⋯
Exploring and analyzing data isn’t the responsibility of one team here at Facebook; it’s everyone’s responsibility. “Mo⋯⋯
Facebook Data Team Geographic dispersion of Facebook users from 0 - 250M.
Watch how Facebook has grown to 250 million users around the world. We couldn’t have done it without all of you.
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As we've all read by now, Google's chief economist Hal Varian commented in January that the next sexy job in the next 10 years would be statisticians. Obviously, I whole-heartedly agree. Heck, I'd go a step further and say they're sexy now - mentally and physically.
